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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]- Books
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The laws and customs, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the City of London: containing. The several charters granted to the said city, from William the Conqueror to the present time; the Magistrates and Officers thereof, and their respective Creations, Elections, Rights, Duties, and Authorities; the Laws and Customs of the City, as the same relate to the Persons or Estates of the Citizens; the Nature, Jurisdiction, Practice and Proceedings of the several Courts in London; and the Acts of Parliament concerning the Cities of London and Westminster, alphabetically digested under the following Titles, viz. Administration, Aldermen, Aliens, Annoyance, Apothccaries, Appeals, Ashes, Attaines, Ballast, Barhers, Bawdy-House, Billingsgate, Black-Well-Hall, Brass, Brokers and Stockjobbers, Buildings, Butchers, Butter and Cheese, Carts, Chairs, Churches, Coaches, Coals, Conduits, Constables, Coopers, Cordwainers, Corn, Debts, Drapery, Election, Fish, Fuel, Garbling and Gauging, Gold and Goldsmiths, Gunpowder, Highways, Jury, Market, Oilmen, Painters and Plaisterers, Pavement, Physicians, Quo Warranto, Recognizances, Sewers, Stockjobbers, Streets, Tithes, Victuallers, Water, Watermen, Weights and Measures, and Wine.
Corporation of London.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Valentine Quin, Esq; - - - appellant. Samuel Langley an infant, son and heir of the Reverend Samuel Langley, deceased, by Thomas Cotton his next friend, and the said Thomas Cotton and Elizabeth his wife, Executors of the said Samuel Langley, deceased, and administrators De bonis non to Anthony Langley, deceased; and John Johnson, administrator to Deborah Cox, widow, deceased, respondents. The appellant's case.
Quin, Valentine.Date: 1739]- Books
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Alexander Ramsay-Irvine of Saphock, Esq; - - - - - - - - - - - appellant. Alexander Irvine, son of John Irvine, writer in the Chancery-Office in Edinburgh, an infant, by the said John Irvine, his administrator in law, or next friend, the said John Irvine, Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain, bart. and Christian Keith, widow, respondents. The appellant's case.
Ramsay-Irvine, Alexander, Sir, -1806.Date: 1753]- Books
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Dengan sale. Part the first; containing the books. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library, prints, paintings, Statues, Music, Mathematical Instruments And Superb Furniture Of At The Chapel which belonged to the late Right Hon. Earl of Mornington, at Dengan Castle, and which will begin to be sold by auction by R. E. Mercier and Co. at their house, No. 31, Anglesea-Street, Dublin, on Monday 18th May 1795, And The Following Days, Until All Are Sold. The Library consists of near 10,000 Volumes; amongst which are the following: Addison's Works, 4 vols. 410. Fielding's Works, 4 vols. 410. Milton's Works, 4 vols. 410. Pope's Works, 15 vols. 410. Spencer's Fairy Queen, 3 vols. 410. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vols. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vols. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London. Fabian, Grasion, Halle, and Holinshed's Chronicles. Anecdotes of Painting, 4 vols. - Strawberry Hill. Willourbby's Ornithology. Morison Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, 2 vols large paper. Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vols. large paper. Hogarth's Works, finest impressions. Darley's Comic Prints. Kip's Britannia Illustrata, 3 vols. Ionian Antiquities. Wood's Palmyra. Montfaucon's Antiquities. Spence's Polymetis, first edition. Evangelium Sanctum Arabice, 1590, Editio Princeps, a splendid copy. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vols. Platonis, Serrani, 2 vols. large paper. Albertus, Magnus, typis Wilhelmum de Mechlinia. Aratus. Editso Princeps. Lucretius, 1486. Editio princeps. Lactantius, 1478. Martialis, 1475. Ovidius, 1486. Valerius Maximus, 1478. Magna Charta, a curious MS. Illustrious Heads, imperial paper.
R. E. Mercier and Co.Date: [1795]- Books
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The laws and customs, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the City of London: Containing. The several Charters granted to the said City from William the Conqueror to the present Time; the Magistrates and Officers thereof, and their respective Creations, Elections, Rights, Duties, and Authorities; the Laws and Customs of the City, as the same relates to the Persons or Estates of the Citizens; the Nature, Jurisdiction, Practice and Proceedings of the several Courts in London; and the Acts of Parliament concerning the Cities of London and Westminster, alphabetically digested under the following Titles, viz. Administration, Aldermen, Aliens, Annoyance, Apothecaries, Appeals, Ashes, Attaints, Ballast, Barbers, Baw-by-Houses, Billingsgate, Black-Well-Hall, Brass, Brokers and Stock-Jobbers, Buildings, Butchers, Butter and Cheese, Carts, Chairs, Churches, Coaches, Coals, Conduits, Constables, Coopers, Cordwainers, Corn, Debts, Drapery, Election, Fish, Fuel, Garbling and Gauging, Gold and Goldsmiths, Gunpowder, Highways, Jury, Market, Oilmen, Painters and Plaisterers, Pavement, Physicians, Quo Warranto, Recognizances, Sewers, Stock-Jobbers, Streets, Tithes, Victuallers, Water, Watermen, Weights and Measures, and Wine.
Corporation of London.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The infants lawyer: or, the law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges; their several Ages for divers Purposes; Cuardians and Prochein amy, as to Suits and Defences by them; Actions brought by and against them, with the manner of Declarations and Pleadings; Fines and Recoveries, and other Matters of Record suffer'd or acknowledged by them, how reversable; Conveyances and Specialties, how bound by them or not; Contracts, Promises, &c. Also Treating of Infant-Executors, Administrator durante minori Aetate; Actions and Suits brought by them and against them, with the manner of Declaring and Pleading. Likewise, Of Devises by and to Infants, Apprentices, Custom of London, and Pleadings, Orphans, Tryals of Infancy, Portions and Legacies, and Resolutions and Decrees at Common Law and Chancery concerning the same. With an Appendix, of the Forms of Declarations and Pleadings concerning Infants. The third edition: with many additions of late adjudged cases in common law and Chancery; and the Explication of all the late Statutes relating to Infants.
Date: 1726- Books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A new treatise on the laws concerning tithes: containing all the statutes, adjudged cases, resolutions and judgments relative thereto, Under The Following Heads: Chap. I. Definition of Tithes, Parsonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation; and of the Origin, Nature, and several Kinds of Tithes. II. Out of what things Tithes shall be paid; what Lands are subject to Tithes, and the several Statutes for dissolving Abbies, Monasteries, and other Religious Houses, and vesting their Lands in the King; what Lands are discharged from Tithes by these Acts respectively, with a Catalogue of the Monastefies dissolved by Stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the yearly value of 200 l. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their respective Foundations. III. Of Exemptions from Payment of Tithes; and of Modus, Custom, and Prescription. IV. An Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable. V. Of setting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes. VI. Of the Remedies for recovering Tithes, and the several acts of Parliament made for that Purpose. Vii. Of Suits in the Court of Exchequer concerning Tithes, and the Proceedings in such Suits. Viii. Of Prohibitions in Suits for Tithes. IX. Of Leases of tithes, for lives or years, by ecclesiastical persons. X. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the sums payable by the respective parishes in London. XI. Cases concerning Tithes, determined in the Court of King's Bench, by the Earl of Hardwicke, and Lord Mansfield. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, with the addition of several cases never before printed. By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Cunningham, Timothy, -1789.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Battle's hull directory, for the year 1791, Containing an alphabetical list of the [J]ames and residence of the representatives in Parliament-mayor, recorder, aldermen, sheriff, and subordinate officers of the corporation - of the bankers, merchants, tradesmen, principal inhabitants, officers of the Customs, Excise, &c. [l]ist of governor's &c. of the work house - the corporation of the Trinity-House, Dock Company, governors, &c. of the general infirmary list of the underwriters, policy brokers, agents to the Fire officers, &c. Quarter sessions at Hull, time of the post coming and going, &c. List of the coasting vessels, market boats, &c. Time when the coaches, diligences, carriers, &c. come in and return, the inns they use, &c. Time of the boats leaving Hull and returning from Barton, calculated with exactitude for every day in the year: with the stamp and window duty. To which is added, a directory for beverley. To be continued annually.
Battle, Robert Gray.Date: 1791- Books
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Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris. Containing, A description of the Kingdom of France - the customs, manners, polity, science, commerce, and agriculture of the inhabitants -Its Ancient form of Government,-And the New-Particulars concerning the Royal Family-Causes of the late Revolution-Proceedings and Decrees of the National Assembly-An Account of the Destruction of the Bastille, and of many dreadful Commotions which have happened in the Nation-With a minute Detail of the late grand Proceedings at the Champ De Mars. - The whole interspersed with a Variety of Reflections, humourous, moral, critical, and philosophical. After which is delineated, a new constitution: with a description of the road to liberty.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A New description of Spain. Containing an account of its kingdoms, Islands, cities, court, royal palaces of Aranjuez, and the Escurial, the nature of the country, products, customs, language, manners, habits, way of travelling, diet, and coins. As also their religion, Inquisition, ecclesiasticks, forts of devotion, councils, and administration of justice; their orders of the golden fleece, &c. With an account of their grandees, and nobility, of their indies, revenues and forces; their bull-fights and other divertisements. To which is added, a brief account of Portugal.
Date: 1701- Books
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Charles Selby Amherst, Esq; administrator of Dame Margaret Strode, his late wife, who was the widow of Sir George Strode, Knt. deceased, - - appellant. William Robinson Lytton, Esq; devisee in the will of Lytton Lytton, Esq; deceased, who was the only son and heir of the said Sir George Strode, deceased; Francis Mascall and James Bedingfield, mortgagees of the estate in question - - - respondents. The respondent William Robinson Lytton's case.
Lytton, William Robinson, -1732.Date: 1730]- Books
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A catalogue for the year 1764, of the libraries of the Rev. Mr. Wood, of the Isle of Wight; the Rev. and learned Dr. Umfrevile; Peter Davall, Esq; late Accomptant-General; William Bussiere, Esq; Surgeon to King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George the First and Second, and many others, lately deceased; Containing above One Hundred Thousand Volumes, Of the most Scarce and Valuable Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Books of Prints, &c. In all Languages, Arts and Sciences, viz. The Histories, Antiquities, Laws and Customs of the various Nations of the known World, with the most eminent Voyages and Travels; A Capital Collection of Prints and Books of Prints, by the greatest Masters of the Italian, French and Flemish Schools; A Noble Collection of Antient Manuscripts on Vellum; The Pompous Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, Lexicons and Critics. A Large Collection of Authors on Antiquity, Medals, Mathematicks, Physic, Surgery and Natural History; The Antient and Modern Authors of the Histories and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland; Great Numbers of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers; Several Magnificent Bibles in Various Languages; With near a Complete Collection of Common Law. Several of the Books are on large Paper, in Morocco, and other rich Bindings. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, without any Abatement, for ready Money only) at T. Osborne's, in Gray's Inn, this day, and, for the Conveniency of the Nobility and Gentry who live at a Distance, will continu daily selling to the 1st of January, 1765. Catalogues may be had at all the chief Cities and noted Towns in Europe, and at the Place of Sale; where may be had Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, Prints, Books of Prints and Manuscripts. As the Proprietor has been at great Expence in purchasing these several Libraries, which excels most Collections in the Value and Number of Volumes it contains, he hopes that it deserves a particular Regard from the Learned. - There are likewise to be disposed of, the Manuscript Sermons of the Rev. Mr. Harris of Hornchurch and Rumford, and some other eminent Divines.
Osborne, Thomas, -1767.Date: 1764]- Books
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Pet. - Miss G. Caster, &c. James Gibson W.S. agent. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Miss Georgiana Caster, only child procreated of the marriage between the deceased Mrs Barbara Anderson of Tushielaw and Hislop, and William Caster, Esq; her second husband, and of the said William Caster as administrator-in-law for his said daughter; and of Mrs [blank] Anderson, only sister of the said deceased Mrs Barbara Anderson, spouse to Gilbert Chisholm, Esq; younger of Stirches, and of the said Gilbert Chisholm for his interest, ...
Caster, Georgiana.Date: 1790]- Books
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Extract from the proceedings of the Board of Administration of the District of Douay, on the fourteenth of December, 1791. Relative to the five English, Scotch and Irish houses in that city. - With the answer delivered by the British Deputies on that Occasion. To which is added the memorial which was presented to the National Assembly, by the English Austin nuns in Paris in Behalf of Themselves. Translated from the French.
Douai. District.Date: [1792?]- Books
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The British palladium: or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1775. The twenty-seventh number published. In two parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects: With an Alphabetical Chronicle (number IV.) of original Customs, useful Discoveries, Arts, and Inventions. Another (number V.) of the first Discovery of Countries. Another (number VI.) of the Beginning of States, Cities, Towns, &c. Also an Alphabetical List of the States of Europe, and of the Religions of each State. For the Information of young Historians and Youth at School. - This historical Chronology to be continued yearly in a Variety of different Classes; with the Geography, Produce, Customs, and Curiosities, of each Country. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of the Improved Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: [1775]- Books
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The appellant's case. Edward Scott, Gent. Administrator of Thomas Scott, his Brother, deceas'd, Appel' Richard Hilton, Executor of John Hilton, Clerk (his Father, deceas'd,) who Married Winifred Scott, the Appellant's Sister, - - - Respond' The Appeal is, touching a bond pretended to be made, in a very Unusual Manner, by the Appellant's Brother, to the Respondent's Father, in these Words following, (viz.)
Scott, Edward, of Aldridge, Staffs.Date: [1704]- Books
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House of Lords. Appeal from the Court of Exchequer. John Boyle, Esq. - - appellant. Anne Lysaght and Mary Coote Purdon, administrators of Henry Wrixon, Esq. respondents. Case of the appellant, John Boyle.
Boyle, John, Esq.Date: 1787]- Books
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Browne's general law list; for the year 1787: being an Alphabetical Register of the Names and Residence of all the Judges Serjeants King's Council Counsellors Chancery Draftsmen Special Pleaders Conveyancers Attornies Public Notaries Middlesex Justices Officers of the Courts Masters in Chancery Commissioners of Bankrupts Country Town-Clerks Officers of Excise, Customs, and Stamp Duties Houses of Parliament Doctors, Proctors, Lord Mayor, Aldermen, City Companies Halls, Clerks and Beadles, Bankers Surveyors Auctioneers Brokers Town and Country Newspapers, Agents, &c. To which are added, A Complete List of the Common and Civil Law-Offices; Hours of Attendance, and Business done at each. - The English and Welch Circuits, Justices, Serjeants, and Council, pointing out the different Circuits they go, and the Towns where the Assizes are Held-Postage of Letters from all the Post-Towns to London. Also A correct List of Mail & Stage Coaches, with the Times and Places from whence they set out, and Rates of Hackney Coachmen from the Inns of Court or Places adjacent thereto, &c.
Date: [1787]- Books
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Appeal from Ireland. Noah Webb, Esq; administrator of Henry Webb, Esq; his late father, deceased, - appellant. Robert St. Lawrence, son and heir of the original proprietor of the estate in question, and George Woods, gentleman, his vendee, - - - - - - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Webb, Noah.Date: 1751]- Books
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Appeal from the decree of the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. John Maxwell, Esq; - - - - - appellant. The Right Honourable Smyth Earl of Clanrickard, son and heir, and also administrator de bonis, of Michael Earl of Clanrickard, formerly Lord Dunkellin, his late father, deceased, unadministred by Sir Gustavus Hume, and Robert Taylor, Dean of Clonfert, the successive administrators thereof, and also heir of John Earl of Clanrickard, and William Earl of Clanrickard, and William Earl of Clanrickard, his grandfather and great-grandfather, deceased, respondent. The respondent's case.
Clanricarde, John Smith De Burgh, Earl of, 1720-1782.Date: 1749]- Books
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George Mackenzie, Esq; - - appellant. The Right Hon. William marquis of Powis, and Robert Garden, gent. administrator of John Simpill, deceased, - respondents. The case of the respondent the Marquis of Powis.
Powis, William Herbert, Marquess of, approximately 1665-1745.Date: 1738]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, in all branches of learning: Containing several libraries lately purchased, In which are included those of Monsieur Sanson, and The Rev. Mr. Francis Peck, lately deceased. The books are in fine Condition, and great Numbers of them elegantly Bound. Amongst many more valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio. Winstanley's Views of Audly End Atkyns's Gloucestershire Carte's Hist. England, 4 v. in Russia leather Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Prints of the Antiquarian Society, 2 vol. in Russia leather Wood's Palmyra Universal History, 10 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquitics and Suppl. in 8 v. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all Nations, with Picart's cuts, 6 vol. Thurloe's State Papers, large and sm. pap. Bacon's Works, large and small paper Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. large paper Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 2 vol. Peere William's Reports, 3 vol. Ventris's Reports, best edit. Ld. Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Lilly's Conveyancer, 2 vol. best edit. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwayte's Dictionary, 2 v. Bayle's Dictionary, l. pap. in Turkey, 5 vol. - Dict. sm. pap. 5 vol. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. James's Med. Dict. 3 vol. Folio. Platonis Opera Serrani, 3 tom. -- Ficini, edit. opt. -- Gr. ap Aldum Aristophanes Kusteri Xenophon Leunclavii Euripides Barnesii Thucydides Dukeri Plutarchi Opera, a Zylandri, 2 tom. Idem, compact. in 4 tom. Lucian Bourdelotio Demostthenes Wolfii Aeschylus Stanleii Polybius Casauboni The King of Poland's Gallery, bound in Russia leather Count Bruhl's Gallery, in Russia leather Columna Trajana & Antonina Ectypa Varia ad Hist. Illust. a T. Hearne Musaeum Veronens. Cortonense, Odescaleum, Romanum, &c. Corps Diplomatique, 23 vol. complet. Ocuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. grande pap. Etat de la France, par Boullanvilliers, 3 t. Guiccuardin Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Ven. Davlla, 2 tom. Ven. Thuani Hist. Sui Temp. 7 t. ch. max. Le Neptune Francoise Par. Clarke, 4 v. Burnet's Reform. 3 vol. Tillotson, Barrow, &c. Waltoni Bib. Polyglotta & Lex. 8 t. Critici Sacri & Supp. 13 tom. Clerici in Vet. & Nov. Test. 6 tom. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, on Monday, February 13th, 1758, and continue till are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews-Gate, near St. Martin's-Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 d. (to be returned) to be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Strahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's-Street; Mr. Matthews and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1758]- Books
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The life and surprizing adventures of James Wyatt. Containing, I. His entering himself Trumpeter on board the Revenge Privateer, Capt. James Wimble, May 29, 1741. II. An Account of their Cruize; and of his being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards; with his wonderful Deliverance from Death. III. The Manner of his escaping from the Spaniards, with Capt. Robert Winter, and five others. IV. How they were drove by contrary Winds on the Coast of Barbary; where they were taken Prisoners by the Moors, and the Hardships they endur'd among the Infidels. Also an Account of the Religion of the Moors; and of Mahomet, the Founder thereof. - V. The Customs, Ceremonies, Manners and Diversions of the Mahometans: Together with an Account of the Curiosities in Africa; and of the Trade between the Europeans and Africans, on the Gold, Slave; and Ivory Coasts. With the Manner of his Deliverance, and his Arrival safe in England after various Vicissitudes of Fortune. Written by himself. Adorn'd with copper plates.
Wyatt, James, 1707-Date: 1755